Showing posts with label June 4. Show all posts
Showing posts with label June 4. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
Tuesday, June 05, 2007
Hong Kong: June 4 candlelight vigil
Fifty-five thousand people poured into Victoria Park, Causeway Bay last night for a candlelight vigil in remembrance of those who lost their lives in Beijing on and around June 4, 1989.
Although Mister B did not make it to Victoria Park, he was there in spirit. Not ideal, to be sure. But there you are.
Among the people who were there, however, was someone who takes brilliant photos: hong kong digital vision
Although Mister B did not make it to Victoria Park, he was there in spirit. Not ideal, to be sure. But there you are.
Among the people who were there, however, was someone who takes brilliant photos: hong kong digital vision
Monday, June 04, 2007
Friday, May 18, 2007
Hong Kong: Ma Lik
Hong Kong legislator, member of the Basic Law Steering Committee, chairman of the pro-Beijing political party Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong (DAB), Mister Ma Lik sat down for tea with some journalists earlier this week.
So it was that in between sips of Jasmin, Ma explained that Hong Kong was not ready for universal suffrage because, for starters, many Hong Kong people wrongly believed there was a massacre in Tiananmen Square [in 1989].
Ma and the DAB have since backpedalled on his Tiananmen comments and Ma has now sought shelter in Guangzhou where he is being treated for colon cancer.
Wish him well for the future.
But why go to Guangzhou for treatment when Hong Kong's three major public hospitals deliver world-class cancer treatments? There is speculation Ma may have been put off by the hospital names . . . Prince of Wales (New Territories), Queen Elizabeth (Kowloon), Queen Mary (Hong Kong island): hemlock
Anyway, Ma cited the Tiananmen "belief" to show that Hong Kong people were "not mature enough", that they lacked patriotism and national identity, and would thus not be ready for democracy until . . . 2022.
Just so you know.
Oh, and he also questioned whether gweilos (a Cantonese semi-contemptuous term for Caucasians) should be the ones to interpret the truth about Tiananmen.
To be continued.
So it was that in between sips of Jasmin, Ma explained that Hong Kong was not ready for universal suffrage because, for starters, many Hong Kong people wrongly believed there was a massacre in Tiananmen Square [in 1989].
Ma and the DAB have since backpedalled on his Tiananmen comments and Ma has now sought shelter in Guangzhou where he is being treated for colon cancer.
Wish him well for the future.
But why go to Guangzhou for treatment when Hong Kong's three major public hospitals deliver world-class cancer treatments? There is speculation Ma may have been put off by the hospital names . . . Prince of Wales (New Territories), Queen Elizabeth (Kowloon), Queen Mary (Hong Kong island): hemlock
Anyway, Ma cited the Tiananmen "belief" to show that Hong Kong people were "not mature enough", that they lacked patriotism and national identity, and would thus not be ready for democracy until . . . 2022.
Just so you know.
Oh, and he also questioned whether gweilos (a Cantonese semi-contemptuous term for Caucasians) should be the ones to interpret the truth about Tiananmen.
To be continued.
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